Taking camper off in RV parks issue?
After a lot of delays, I am looking at getting a truck camper and truck. Right now thinking in terms of Artic Fox or Lance, partly because they have the only nearby dealers, and 3/4 ton Duramax. Ove...
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mkirsch wrote:DianneOK wrote:
We hosted McGrath SB in CA for five winters. TCs were NOT allowed off the truck. The issue was abandoned units....too many homeless in the area. The same was true at every CA county and state park we hosted.
Abandoned TC units do pose a unique problem in campgrounds.
With TTs or FWs or motorhomes, worst case, you call in a tow company to hook on and drag it away.
How do you get rid of an abandoned TC? Normal rollbacks are too high and too wide to slide in under the camper to load it.
The only way to cleanly move an abandoned TC is with the right kind of pickup truck. Most campground service vehicles are golf carts or UTVs these days. I just don't see campgrounds keeping a pickup truck around just to move an abandoned TC when it is so much cheaper and easier to say, "No unloading."
You bring up some great points. I had to dispose of an abandoned camper once. After making sure there was no propane tanks, batteries, etc it was a simple task of smashing it with my front end loader and dumping it in the trash bin. Most places wouldn't be set up for that and many states have requirements for disposing of abandoned property. It is a real pain for the company.
